You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always think of you.
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Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Birth: | 9th May, 1860 |
Death: | 19th June, 1937 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Profession: | Novelist, Playwright |
Sir James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. He was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He studied at Glasgow Academy, Dumfries Academy, and Edinburgh University. He wrote several novels include: The Little White Bird, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Auld Licht Idyls, When a man's single, The inconsiderate waiter, Two of Them, and Peter and Wendy. He wrote several plays include: Quality Street, The Admirable Crichton, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, What Every Woman Knows, Dear Brutus, Mary Rose, and The Boy David.
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